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Urban Space, Architecture and the Moving Image 11 - 13 September 2013, School of Architecture University of Porto, Portugal The conference will focus on the relationship between urban space, architecture and the moving image, offering a forum for scholars,...
Architecture and Resilience
5th Annual Symposium of Architectural Research 28-30 August, 2013 in Tampere University of Technology, School of Architecture, Finland. Extended abstract deadline April 15, 2013. Paper deadline May 20, 2013 (optional) CONFERENCE OVERVIEW Tampere University of...
Filling the Gaps: World Heritage & the 20th Century
Conference, Chandigarh, India - October 03-04, 2013 Submission of abstracts: April 19, 2013 Submission of full papers & posters: July 22, 2013 CONFERENCE OVERVIEW In 2005, the ICOMOS report “The World Heritage List: Filling the Gaps” highlighted the inadequate...
Beyond the Sacred Building: Architecture and Evangelization
3rd International Conference on Contemporary Religious Architecture, 14-16 November 2013 San Juan Foundation, University of Seville, Archdiocese of Seville, Seville. Deadline: 30 June, 2013 Architecture and evangelization have often been intimately related in a way...
Futures Past: Design and the Machine
MIT, November 21-23, 2013 http://descomp.scripts.mit.edu/futurespast/ Call for papers. Deadline: 29 March, 2013 In 1960, the readers of the IRE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics encountered J.C.R. Licklider speculating on the future. “The hope,” he...
Architectural Electives Affinities; correspondences, transfers, multi/interdisciplinarity
Now open: Early Registration for the “Architectural Electives Affinities; correspondences, transfers, multi/interdisciplinarity” Conference, that will take place at the Faculty for Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo, Brazil between 20-23 March 2013....
Esthetics and Spirituality: Places of Interiority
CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline: 1 December 2012 Conference Esthetics and Spirituality: Places of Interiority Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 16 – 17 – 18 May 2013 In the contemporary Western European world traditional, institutionalized religions are losing ground,...
The Baroque City: Planned, Built, Experienced and Represented
Call for Papers The Fourteenth International Baroque Summer Course of the Werner Oechslin Library Foundation, Einsiedeln, Switzerland, will take place from Sunday, 23 June – Thursday, 27 June 2013, this year with the topic “The Baroque City: Planned, Built,...
Colonial and Postcolonial Urban Planning in Africa
Lisbon, 5-6 September 2013 International Planning History Society (IPHS) & Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal. The Conference – Colonial and Postcolonial Urban Planning in Africa – aims to re-examine the history of colonial...
The Making of Modern Ankara: Space, Politics, Representation
An international symposium organised by the Department of Architecture at the University of Westminster in conjunction with SOAS Seminars on Turkey. The making of modern Ankara is a momentous yet oft-neglected episode in twentieth-century history. The transformation...
Domes: Past, Present and Future
A symposium exploring continuities and ruptures in the use and meanings of the dome across periods and media. Thursday, 29 November 2012, 2-5pm Cinema, Birkbeck School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Peter Draper, Visiting Professor of History of...
Faculty Club Study Day, UC Santa Barbara
A one day symposium dedicated to one of the most iconic building on the campus of UC Santa Barbara. Designed in the late 1960s by Charles W. Moore (MLTW / Moore Turnbull), the building will be expanded and refurbished in the near future. The study day explores the...